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Ipatrainer.com community provides free phonetic transcription tables with sounds and exercises
2012/10/11
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- This is looking good, but …
- There seem to be some coding issues, I am getting server errors 500 after registering.
- The site is advertisement-based.
- There is no content beyond the IPA sound which would put these bare basics in phonetics into language learning context and practice.
- Site Contains:
- tables for teaching your language – complete with phonetic symbols and sound samples
- and exercises for your students (e.g. Memory games, Identifying characters
, places, 
and sounds.
- tables for teaching your language – complete with phonetic symbols and sound samples
- You can
- Create your own, after free registration,
- or assign one of the ones from many other teachers.
- Most popular ones are listed here: http://www.ipatrainer.com/user/site/?language=, and if the use numbers are accurate, there must be really some serious IPA learning going on here…
- I see no way to browse other tables without having the username of the teacher who created and assigned it.
- There is also a phonetic writer.
- And a user forum, in its infancy.
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Group conference with all students and the teacher using Sanako Study 1200
2012/09/28
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- To set up the maybe most common language classroom activity – everybody listening or talking to everbody else (whether student or teacher) –
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try this with the Sanako Study 1200 – plus have no student fade off because of “incomprehensible input” caused by bad classroom acoustics and self-conscious learners mumbling –:
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Activity pane: discussion, start –> students can talk with each other
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Button:talk –> teacher can talk to students
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Student icon / popup-menu: teacher can hear students – not only the one from the student icon, but anybody in discussion.
How to download Centro Spanish Textbook audio
2012/09/07
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The audio is in (compressed) mp3 format. Just right-click on any audio link and choose save target/link as (or similar, depending on browser), like so: 
Example from Centro – Puntos de partida: Online Laboratory Manual, 8th Edition (you need access privileges to follow this link, but you can send links around, users can open them, provided their webbrowser is already logged into the centro site – getting access and finding you way around the website is the real issue. Webspiders are prohibited, though – and even Downthemall saves only files without extensions: rename them to .mp3 or save them manually as .mp3 in the first place, as shown above. Does not work as above? Try a different web browser.
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